Hey, ShikamaruRocks, here. How ya doin'?

I have another world. One called "Shika's Busy-ish Nook" that contains less random stuff than you'll find here. For the most part. I'll leave all the official stuff that's on here though, but all new official stuff will be there.

I AM A GIRL. So many people think I'm a dude, but I'm not. I promise.

Soooo, let's get on with it, shall we?

Most of these are in no particular order...

Favorite Manga: Fruits Basket, Saiyuki, Saiyuki Reload, RurouniKenshin, DNAngel, Prince of Tennis, Trigun, One Piece, KareKano, Lovely Complex, Whistle!, PeaceMaker Kurogane, Fullmetal Alchemist, HanaKimi, Ouran High School Host Club, etc.

Favorite Anime: Hunter x Hunter, Fullmetal Alchemist, Peacemaker Kurogane, DNAngel, Fruits Basket, TekkonKinkreet, Saiyuki, Mushi-shi, BECK, Avatar (it counts!!! grrrr....), Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, RurouniKenshin, etc.

Music Peeps: YellowCard, Death Cab for Cutie, Snowpatrol, A Fire Inside, The Used, Three Days Grace, Seether, Orange Range, My Chemical Romance, Hoobastank, Muse, The Pillows, Plain White T's, Angels and Airwaves, Flaming Lips, Bump of Chicken, and!!! The Jonas Brothers (my guilty pleasure).

I love cooking, drawing, reading (mostly manga but novels are wicked awesome too. I just don't have the time nor stamina for novels as much anymore...though I have been working my way back in. lol), knitting, watching my brother play Zelda/Metroid games (lol), and skateboarding, though I fail epicly at it.

Toodles!!

Goin' to Nationals, baby!!

So, I'm in a really big culinary program, as I mentioned in the post just previous to this one.

Recently, about a third of all of our students went to State competition. We had two teams that were competeing in the cooking section which included making a three course meal, two plates of each dish, in one hour. They were teams of 4 plus one alternate. Then we had two teams on the management part. That consists of one group of four facing off with another group of four and seeing who answers the most questions in a Jeopardy style of play and then where they have to annalyze a problem at a restaurant and tell a panel of judges what each of their team members would do if they were the head chef, or manager or whatever in that situation. Finally, we had two kids in the edible centerpiece part of the competition. They had 45 minuets to make an awesome centerpiece all out of stuff you can fruits and veggies.

Also, one of my best buds went as a manager person. Yay!

Anywhooooo. We won 1st and 2nd in Centerpiece. Boo-YAH!! And we got 1st and 3rd in management which means we're going to Nationals with THAT. And finally, we got 1st and 2nd in the Culinary part!!!! Rock ON!!!! So, our 1st place team is also going to Nationals.

Man. We did good.

Life: 03/12/08 | By: ShikamaruRocks | 3 comments | Tags: awards, competition, cooking, culinary, nationals

Japan~~~

So, I have to write TWO DIFFERENT research papers over Spring Break.

Yuck. One is for Japanese, and one is for my Culinary class. Lucky me, they are both on Japanese food. Rock on. I can just modify the one for Japanese and I'm set. Boo-yah.

So, I should be working on that know (considering that I am in Culinary right now....) but I've already spent quite a bit of time choosing my online sources. They're all pretty good sites. Check em out.

http://www.yamasa.org/acjs/network/english/newsletter/things_japanese_29.html

http://www.cambridge.org/us/books/kiple/japan.htm

http://www.expo2005.or.jp/en/visitingjapan/food/menu.html

The second one is really long (like 10 pages of pretty small print) so it's not like I expect you to read them and tell me what you found or anything. Just, if you ever have any questions about Japanese food, now you know where to look. lol. I also have a couple books on sushi and rice, and Tofu and Miso. Pretty schnazy. haha.

Man. I'm a dork.

Life: 03/10/08 | By: ShikamaruRocks | 2 comments | Tags: japan, japanese cuisine, research

Desperately Difficult

For crying out loud. I spent 25 minutes trying to figure out how to simply make a world and put a post in it because I am so bad with computer stuff.

And I'm in my computer class right now.

Well, the bell is about to ring. Maybe I can ask my sister, TwistedCyberChick, for help with making this little site thingy as cool (not) as my myOtaku page. Hm. I dunno.

Life: 03/06/08 | By: ShikamaruRocks | 3 comments | Tags: computers, stupidity